ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo has touted a bi-partisan style of governing, but his decision to back the Working Families Party’s agenda and seek to flip control of the state Senate will likely leave issues such as passing a women’s equality agenda and increasing the minimum wage unfinished until next year.

Cuomo agreed Saturday to seek to oust Republicans and a five-member Democratic conference from power in the November elections in exchange for the third party’s support. He said he would push for their shared agenda items next year if he’s successful. The current legislative session runs until June 19.

“This is about electing people who support an agenda. I also will oppose Democrats who have opposed the things that we’ve tried to pass,” Cuomo told reporters Sunday.

Cuomo’s stance will upend a legislative session that appeared to be headed toward a stalemate on many of the Democratic governor’s priorities. Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, doubted any major, unresolved issues will be settled before the session ends.

“Now we have Governor (Andrew) Cuomo, who on one hand (has) commercials saying how great it is Republicans and Democrats are working together — four on-time budgets, cutting taxes, creating jobs,” Skelos told reporters.

“And then you have another Andrew Cuomo — maybe it’s a different middle initial — who is basically kowtowing to the most extreme liberal Working Families Party, saying that bipartisanship doesn’t work in Albany and we should go back to the days of dysfunction, deficits, overspending, over-taxation.”

Republicans opposed the so-called Dream Act that would provide tuition assistance to immigrants in the country illegally. They also opposed public financing and a part of the women’s equality agenda that would strengthen abortion rights.

As part of the agreement with the small but influential Working Families Party, Cuomo said he would seek to increase the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The proposal would also index future minimum wage increases to inflation and allow localities to raise it up to 30 percent higher than the statewide wage in areas with high cost of living.

In February, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it would be a chaotic situation to let local governments set their own minimum wage. But he said Sunday that the proposal he now supports would be limited in scope.

Senate Democrats on Monday basked in their newfound relationship with Cuomo. Since taking office in 2011, Cuomo has praised his working relationship with Republicans, who have had control in the Senate. Last year, Republicans teamed up with five-member Independent Democratic Conference to form a coalition majority.

“I think the governor made it clear that he will be supporting a Senate Democratic majority because he understands that so many of the initiatives he’s put forward has been thwarted because of the leadership composition now,” said Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers.

Business groups and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino ripped Cuomo’s agreement with the labor-backed group, which is largely based in New York City. They said they are concerned it would hurt the state’s economy, particularly upstate. Senate Democrats are largely from the New York City area.

“This weekend, Governor Cuomo sent a regressive message to both small business and taxpayers,” said Mike Durant, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “The governor is directly threatening the viability of Main Street solely for personal political gain.”

Astorino, the Westchester County executive, said Cuomo “sold out New Yorkers in exchange for political support from a fringe third-party founded by ACORN.”

Astorino said in an interview with Gannett’s Albany Bureau that Cuomo should reveal the details of his agreement with the Working Families Party.

“I think it’s imperative for Andrew Cuomo to reveal the deal. The people of the state have a right to know what he sold them out for,” Astorino said.

Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action and a co-chair of the Working Families Party, wouldn’t put a number on how much Cuomo would help raise for the Senate campaigns.

Cuomo beat Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor, for the Working Families nod. She said she hasn’t decide whether to primary Cuomo on the Democratic line, calling him “untrustworthy.”

Bill Samuels, a wealthy Democratic activist, said Monday he won’t run for lieutenant governor in a Democratic primary against Cuomo’s pick, former western New York Rep. Kathy Hochul. He said the decision comes after Cuomo agreed to support the agenda of the Working Families Party.